Is it enough to check your TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone)?

• Learn more about the myths of TSH in my latest episode.

How about just adding the T4 (Thyroxine) hormone to the panel of tests?

• If that is all you test, you have to assume that T4 is converting to T3 (in the serum), therefore driving the cell's metabolic machinery.

Unfortunately, everyone's conversion happens at different rates!

To know, you must assess T3 and the ratio of T3/T4

What if too much T4 has been converted to RT3 - and therefore even with normal T3 serum levels there may be a metabolic block to its action?

To know this ratio, you must assess RT3 and the ratio of T3/RT3

Does this make sense or is it just gobbledygook?

Listen to my latest episode as I explain ALL of the above!